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Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
“A jewel to those interested in ore mining, mineral collecting and mineralogy, or the anthropology of value.” —American Ethnologist Anthropologist Elizabe
Language: en
Pages: 235
Pages: 235
Traces the movement of minerals from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and provate collections and explores their value as scientific specimens, religious offe
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Based on a Wenner-Gren international workshop, held at the Royal Ontario Museum, this book addresses the complexity of human-mineral engagements through ethnogr
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one
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This book provides a critical perspective on contemporary debates on industrialisation in India. It aims to study the process of industrialisation at a conceptu
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There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Si
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Mexicans in Alaska analyzes the mobility and experience of place of three generations of migrants who have been moving between Acuitzio del Canje, Michoacán, M
Language: en
Pages: 106
Pages: 106
Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a v
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contem
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
The coveted “Made in Italy” label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a s
